Kitchen Table Wisdom

“Everybody is a story,” writes Dr Remen.

When I was a child, people sat around kitchen tables and told their stories. We don’t do that so much anymore.

Sitting around the table telling stories is not just a way of passing time. It is the way wisdom gets passed along. The stuff that helps us to live a life worth remembering. Despite the awesome powers of technology many of us still do not live very well.

We may need to listen to one another’s stories again.’ In this beautiful book, through a series of insightful stories picked from the tree of life, Dr Remen teaches the reader much about healing, loving and living. With the elegance of simple yet remarkable parables-dealing with life, death, loneliness, suffering, God and many aspects of the human condition-she shows us that we are not alone, and that we can all learn to heal another’s emotional wounds simply by listening and sharing. It’s an outpouring of wisdom guaranteed to make the reader laugh, cry and ponder the warmth and tenderness of life.